HOW TO BREW: FRENCH PRESS

HOW TO BREW | FRENCH PRESS

This is the French press brewing recipe used at THE WORD COFFEE.

What you need

・Purified water or soft mineral water

・French press body

·kettle

A coffee scale, smartphone timer, or kitchen scale

・Stirring spoon

recipe

Ratio: Coffee powder/water = 1:14-1:16 *This time, 14g powder: 220ml water

Mesh (grind size) / Medium to medium-coarse

Water temperature: 100℃ to 93℃

-Preheat the French press by pouring hot water over it.

- Discard the water used for blanching and place the press body with the powder inside on the coffee scale.

- As soon as the timer starts, pour in all the hot water from a slightly higher position and stir several times with a spoon.

- To prevent the temperature from dropping and the flavor from escaping, cover with the plunger and wait 4 minutes.

After 4 minutes, remove the plunger and stir slowly up and down several times.

- Insert the plunger again and press slowly to complete the extraction.

-one point-

During the final press, by not pushing down all the powder that has accumulated at the bottom, but stopping the plunger about 5 to 10 cm from the powder, you will end up with a relatively clean cup with less fine powder.

*If you feel the coffee is too powdery or has an unpleasant taste, you can adjust the grind size. (Because the French press uses a metal filter, it is impossible to completely remove fine powder. If you want to remove fine powder, please use a separate fine powder separator.)

As for the strength of the coffee, if you feel it is too weak, increase the amount of powder a little, and if you feel it is too strong, reduce it.

Even after extraction is complete, extraction will continue inside the press body, resulting in over-extraction and the generation of unpleasant flavors. Once extraction is complete, immediately transfer the coffee to a cup or another container.

 

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